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Starsector => Suggestions => Topic started by: Protonus on March 26, 2015, 03:20:59 AM

Title: Individual Spread for Linked Firing offsets
Post by: Protonus on March 26, 2015, 03:20:59 AM
This is a rather simple suggestion, really.

As I couldn't find a direct way of allowing weapons to just slap in several offsets and fire like TF2's minigun, oh willy-nilly, since it just felt like you're using Contra's Spreadgun with only 1 shot is absolutely directed to a target while all else just supposedly miss. And just having 1 barrel for a weapon to fire several projectiles just seems a little too straightforward and somewhat feels like literally using a waterhose that directly pointed to one direction.

What I would want is 1 weapon with several Firing offsets, each possessing its individual spread, in order to produce an illusion of a rapid-firing weapon that goes beyond 30 FPS limit, or simply having a true spread-gun.


This is for anyone who would pursue Rapid-firing, but low accuracy weaponry and some glorified Shotguns in your wake.
Title: Re: Individual Spread for Linked Firing offsets
Post by: Taizo Puckett on March 26, 2015, 08:07:07 AM
This is request to modders.
Title: Re: Individual Spread for Linked Firing offsets
Post by: Protonus on March 26, 2015, 09:02:18 AM
Mostly, it is, which I wanted to have.

This actually paves way in making spread weapons work intentionally above the FPS limit and also new weapon/s (changes).
Title: Re: Individual Spread for Linked Firing offsets
Post by: xenoargh on March 26, 2015, 11:26:39 AM
This has already been done in mods; building a shotgun is totally doable :)
Title: Re: Individual Spread for Linked Firing offsets
Post by: Protonus on March 26, 2015, 05:38:28 PM
But not easily available in the Vanilla setting, and I do believe it requires scripting to make it happened though.